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  1. Let students benefit

    Richard Wilson's letter (May 7) about UK postgraduates in poverty applies to many undergraduates. So why not let students who have low savings sign on with the Department of Social Security and also...

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  2. E-scape the culls

    Northumbria University finds itself in a Catch-22. It has to reduce staff, but those who remain are overburdened and unable to take on more work ("Union to ballot on staff cuts", May 7). Northumbria...

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  3. Laurie Taylor column

    Morning, Doctor Quintock. Looking for your Contemporary Cultural Theory scripts? What's that, Maureen? Your second-marking D106 scripts. They're over there by the window. Next to Narrativity. Maureen...

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  4. Alan Ryan

    Grade inflation makes no difference to the outside world, but academics need to believe in the absoluteness of the A Among the hazards of teaching in an American university are the negotiations over...

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  5. Leader: Pets not the only deserving cause

    Many academics will see this week's report on voluntary giving as just one more step down the slippery slope to anti-intellectual commercialism in universities. The culture of giving is quite...

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  6. Leader: A likely vote-winner

    When the Higher Education Policy Institute produced its first projections of growth in student numbers over the rest of the decade, the figures were so large they were treated with considerable...

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  7. Second CEN Workshop on Research and Standardisation

    Brussels, 12 May 2004 Tuesday 1st June 2004 Who? This Workshop is principally for researchers: With an interest in standardisation and/or Participating in an FP5 project already involving an element...

  10. Clear aims for European marine research conference

    Brussels, 12 May 2004 A major European conference on marine research got underway in Galway, Ireland, on 10 May, and following a spectacular opening ceremony, the 500 scientists and policy makers in...

  12. Busquin hopes for ERC decision under Dutch Presidency

    Brussels, 12 May 2004 Speaking in Brussels on 11 May 2004, Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin expressed his hope that a European Research Council (ERC) for fundamental research would be agreed...

  15. Private company close to putting craft into space

    Brussels, 12 May 2004 The chairman of the Ansari X-Prize, a ten million dollar (8.4 million euro) race to be the first private company to put a three person craft in space twice in two weeks, has...